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Assuredly it was a terrible, lamentable tragedy. But it seems to me that we should be a mature enough people to view it not in terms of the easy, conventional stereotypes of good guys and bad guys but in terms, … Continue reading

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Private John Costello, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action


I will explain to Mr. Roosevelt how my brother died fighting for his Country and how his country has repaid his poor widowed mother for the sacrifice. –Gertrude, sister of Private Costello While most of the casualties in Captain Varnum’s B … Continue reading

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The Opening of the Fight at Wounded Knee


There was an instant, and then we heard sounds of firing in the centre of the Indians. ‘Fire!’ I shouted, and we poured it into them. –Lieutenant J. D. Mann– Frederic Remington drew this sketch of the opening shots at … Continue reading

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